IPP> Re: Re IPP NOT - 9 issues in the IPPGET spec.htm

IPP> Re: Re IPP NOT - 9 issues in the IPPGET spec.htm

Michael Sweet mike at easysw.com
Tue Jul 31 17:02:47 EDT 2001


Carl Kugler wrote:
> 
> IPP Mail Archive: Re: IPP> NOT - 9 issues in the IPPGET specMS> I think
> event-wait-mode should be OPTIONAL but RECOMMENDED. There
>     will always be client and server implementations that can't do the
>     multipart encoding, or can't spare the extra socket resources.
> 
> Even when event-wait-mode is false, I think multipart encoding would be very
> desirable, otherwise you can only send a single notification per operation,
> even if several are waiting to be delivered.  This is a lot of overhead,
> especially if persistent connections aren't used.

But (unless I read it wrong), the current spec allows the printer
to send multiple event notification groups in a single response,
so you can get all your events even without multipart encoding
(for the no wait mode, anyways)

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